[AnAmericanMother]

Have you read The Guns of the South? Interesting alternative history. I'm sorry Turtledove felt like he had to put in the fantasy-time travel element - Life magazine did a better job of hypothesizing a series of cumulative breaks for the South (A.S. Johnston and Stonewall survived; no Pickett's Charge; Lee cuts off the reinforcements coming in to Gettysburg, etc.) to get the same result.

I wonder who would have called the Smith-Jones game, and if it was Howard Cosell, what would he have said? ;-)

[U S Army EOD]

No never read the book. Have no idea who would have called the game. But little quirks of fate make you wonder sometime what would have really happened.

And when you think of alternate history you wonder how much of the history that is written down is actual history and not an alternate interpretation of history because the writer didn't like the facts and decided to change a few events here and there.

In saying this, it is interesting how different the personnal accounts from what you read about from your relatives and the ones that I have seen differ from the offical history books.

[eddie willers]

I wonder who would have called the Smith-Jones game

Larry Munson.